1.Falcon 4.0 (best flight sim ever and epic dynamic campaign. The manual was over an inch thick!)
2.IL2 and it's addons
3.Lock on modern air combat
4.SWAT 4
5.Original Rainbow six games on PC (not the dumbed down console crap :))
6.America's army (pc)
7.Race Pro
8.Op flashpoint (all of them)

List is in no particular order.

A few sims stand out for me that i had mass amounts of fun on..the most notable are....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVaPOM2aDs0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80EIMi6Vmo8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS92fKZyntk

The first one is CFS2 (combat flight sim), the second is B17 the mighty 8th (start clip from 2:05 to see it start moving) and the third is EAW (European Air War). These are clips i did some years ago now. I used to love flying these games.

On the first clip, with the lancaster bobmer taking off... i made this lanc myself in game.

Code letter VN-B this was the code of the lancaster my grandad flew during the war, the song "abide with me" he always used to sing to himself in the rear turret while taxi ing and taknig off, and the picture at the end... my grandad, god bless him :D

LOL - I purchased Falcon 4.0 without owning a computer! I used to assume control over my friends' PC's when I would visit them. ;)

I haven't owned a PC since the early to mid-90s so I am going to have to go old school on this and bear in mind the standards for a 'sim' were a lot less exacting back then:

Battle of Britain: Their Finest Hour
Aces Over Europe
Aces Over The Pacific
X-Wing
Tie Fighter

Most of those by todays standards would rank more in the arcady side of things, but back then just having red-outs in the Aces games was pretty amazing. Their Finest Hour came out waaaay back in 1991 and actually had sprites instead of polygons and ya know what? It was awesome, thats where I first learned how to do immelmans and split-s's. How do you realistically simulate an X-Wing? I think LucasArts did an amazing job trying and it was one of the best games I've ever played, def a top 5 ranker. If you've never played any of these get dos-box and give it a shot, you will have a blast.

I've been wanting to pick up dcs for a while now, supposed to be really awesome even though it looks to take about 5 min to start up the heli. The same company is making a new game about the A-10 Warthog one of my favorite planes.

Played the entire IL-2 Sturmovik series for PC: the original, all the expansions: Forgotten Battles, Pacific Fighters, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Ubisoft's Lock-On
MS Combat Flight Simulator
Ace Combat, AC2
too many to remember!:rolleyes:

Played a lot
- MS Combat Flight Simulator 1 ( even made an addon to recorder online combat scores)
- IL2 from the original , Forgotten Battles, Aces Expansion, Pacific Fighters (1946 only recently)
- Mig Alley

Played some
- MS Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3 (always like CFS1 better)
- Strike Fighters
- Jane's WWII Fighter
- EAW

Played ocassionaly
- Red Baron 3D
- Flying Corps
- Fighter Squadron S D O E
- Fighter Ace (CFS1 days)
- Aces High
- Air Warrior III

Man this topic brings back memories...
The first and only flight sim game I really played was on Amiga500 (yes, many many years ago - was just a kid) and was named Birds of Prey!

So that's my second favourite after Il2BoP lol.

dude that brings it all back i remember birds of pray there were something like 50 different jets to fly was awsome the first time i landed and lived i was convinced i could fly a plane for real (i was 14) lol :grin::grin:

The sims i spent the most time with are:

-IL-2
(its simply the best prop sim)

-Fighter Squadron-SDOE
(excellent physics, fantasic mods and add-ons, almost a sandbox with planes)

-Janes Longbow 2
(my first sim on a 3D graphics card, l loved those hellfires lighting up the grund in their path)

-Janes F15
(my first jet sim, and with groundbreaking graphics and detail)

OT:
The BF1942 with the Desert Combat mods. Not a sim, but i spent hundreds of hours online. Fantastic gameplay on very open maps.